Trucks have hauled about half of the pulping liquors besieging the grounds of the Samoa Pulp Mill away, and the crawl of tankers continues steadily up to Longview, Washington, where the liquors are being refined and reused by a mill. Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District CEOJack Crider said the process has been smooth […]
Grant Scott-Goforth
Grant Scott-Goforth was an assistant editor and staff writer for The Journal from 2013 to 2017.
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Stoned Yoni
Is there anything weed can’t make better? In the rush to imbue every last product imaginable with marijuana, we’ve seen creative candies, coffee, topical treatments, etc., etc. We’ve likely not seen the end of infusion-mania, but maybe this’ll make entrepreneurs stop for a moment and take a good, long look in the mirror. The California-based […]
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Lion Stories
When she closes her eyes, Marianne Way can sometimes still picture the teeth. It was around three in the afternoon in October 2008, and Way was taking advantage of a break in the rain to replace a lightbulb at the edge of her Fieldbrook driveway. The fixture stuck out of the ground in a small […]
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UPDATE: Bass Wins 4th, Kerrigan Mum on Future
Virginia Bass has won the 4th District, according to post-election results released today by the Humboldt County Elections Office. The vote tally, which includes ballots turned into the elections office and polling places on Election Day, saw Bass take 2,822 of the vote (52.05 percent), compared to Kerrigan’s 2,587. The Southern Humboldt Unified School District bond measure […]
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PAC a Bowl
Every election cycle the specter of dark money looms, rumors of wealthy cabals silently shaping national and local races flit around the collective, politics-fried consciousness, and boogeymen lobbyists haunt the dreams of regular, down-to-earth voters in every political bloc. But politics is money. That’s just the reality, whether it’s furthering legislation or legislators. And sometimes, […]
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Eat Your Weedies
Will this be the most pot-friendly World Cup ever? In host nation Brazil, marijuana possession is tolerated, if illegal — an arrest leads to a warning and community service, according to the “legality of cannabis by country” entry on Wikipedia (yeah, yeah, don’t use it as a resource, kids). Of course, the U.S. men’s team […]
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EPIC Finds a New Director
The venerable (and not-always-loved) Environmental Protection Information Center is undergoing a “restructuring” that includes the departure of executive director Gary Graham Hughes. Natalynne DeLapp, who has been with EPIC since 2008, most recently as the organization’s development director, will take over the executive director position June 15. She said the change in leadership was a […]
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The Election’s Over, Where Does The Money Go?
Money’s influence on elections will never cease to be contentious. Often, campaigns are strapped for cash, particularly in the last days of an election. But other times, a campaign’s fundraising has been so effective that there’s leftover money on the Wednesday after the vote. Where does that unspent money go? California law restricts what money […]
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Bass All But Re-Elected
Virginia Bass’ election party started off with bravado, as one of her advisors declared victory based on the early vote-by-mail returns in her bid to retain her 4th District supervisor seat. Bass herself was outwardly hesitant. As the evening progressed, votes cast for challenger Chris Kerrigan at the polls narrowed Bass’ initially commanding lead. But […]
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Bongress
Congress decided recently that the Drug Enforcement Administration and federal prosecutors should not go after medical marijuana organizations where they’re legal under state law. The House of Representatives voted May 29 in favor of an amendment that marijuana advocates say will end federal raids on dispensaries in California and other states. Under fear of federal […]
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UPDATED: Kerrigan’s Got a Slim, Slim Chance
UPDATE: The Elections Office is still slogging through the uncounted ballots, and has begun tallying provisional ballots. The number of outstanding ballots from the 4th District is likely to be released early next week. Following a bit more predictive arithmetic, Chris Kerrigan’s chances of collecting enough votes to overcome Virginia Bass for the 4th District […]
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New Subversive Graffiti Stickers Popping Up
Remember those “Eureka Stinks” stickers and T-shirts? (This shirt collector has one featured on his Tumblr.) Well, without that pulp mill smokestack to befoul the city’s air, there’s less motivation for malodorous maligning of the city. Perhaps, with election season sharpening every flaw in the city’s facade, a message like this — reserved, but embracing — […]